<i>‘A comprehensive treatment of a complex subject, </i>Rethinking Rural Studies both traces where the discipline has been and provides multiple pathways for scholars to pursue in the future. Written accessibly by two of the most venerable experts in the field, it takes on a wide range of topics, methods, and theoretical approaches while never losing sight of the interconnections of people, place, and environment.’

- Jennifer Sherman, Washington State University, US,

<i>‘In </i>Rethinking Rural Studies<i>, David Brown and Mark Shucksmith combine their extensive experience to construct a timely and critical review of the major challenges facing rural societies and map a pathway to a hopeful rural studies. An essential read for all rural researchers.’</i>

- Michael Woods, Aberystwyth University, UK,

<i>‘Brown and Shucksmith, giants in the field of rural scholarship, provide a critically important set of perspectives regarding how we understand social, economic, political, and institutional dynamics across urban and rural spaces. </i>Rethinking Rural Studies<i> appears at an historical moment in which deeper and more relational understandings of spatial inequalities and processes – and the social and political consequences that result – have perhaps never been needed more.’</i>

- Kai A. Schafft, Pennsylvania State University, US,